NEWS

Three new “Will, Kempe & Ed” plays“–Jennifer’s series of short comedies “about” Shakespeare and The Lord Chamberlain’s Men–will be presented by PlayZoomers  July 16, 2023 at 7 PM ET. The performance is free and will be followed by a talkback.

Jennifer’s Happy is one of 50 plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York July 6-9, 2023. Some shows will also be streamed. Tickets can be purchased here. (This will be Jennifer’s fifth play with Gi60 since 2019!)

Jennifer’s play Sugar, a Winner of the Stage It! 2023 10-Minute Play Contest, is now published in Stage It! 7: Thirty 10-Minute Plays.

Jennifer’s Most Wonderful (published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021) will be performed at Gadsden State Community College in AL on April 27, 2023.

Jennifer’s Fridge (published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021) will have its fifteenth production as part of Fairleigh Dickinson University Players’ new play festival April 26-30, 2023 in Teaneck, NJ.

Jennifer’s Sugar was named a Finalist for the 2023 Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for Ten-Minute Plays.

Jennifer’s play Expectations will be produced live online by PlayZoomers February 10 and 11, 2023. Find ticket info here.

Sugar will have its third U.S. production as part of The New Deal Creative Arts Center’s 10 x 10 Fest running April 20-21, 2023 in Poughkeepsie, NY. The play premiered in Lakeshore Players 2022 10-Minute Play Festival and was also selected for Little Fish Theatre’s “Pick of the Vine” 2023.

Jennifer’s full-length play still small voice was named a Finalist for the 2023 Moxie Arts Incubator.

Jennifer’s Sugar is one of seven plays selected for production in Little Fish Theatre’s 21st Annual PICK OF THE VINE Festival January 19-February 5, 2023 in San Pedro, CA.

Jennifer’s Chem Class, an Official Selection of The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022, has been selected for production by the Dobbins Conservatory at Southeast Missouri State University as part of The Lanford Wilson Short Plays performing October 27-29, 2022 in Cape Girardeau, MO.

Jennifer’s full-length play Fertile Ground has been named a Semifinalist for the 2022 Panndora’s Box New Works Festival.

Jennifer’s In Memory of Maria Mercader is now published in The COVID Monologues: 54 Writers Respond to the Pandemic by Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble.

A podcast of Jennifer’s play Chem Class has been released by City Lights Theatre Company’s 2022 Lights Up! Festival and can be heard here.

Jennifer’s play Fertile Ground is a Semifinalist for the 2022 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists. It was also a Semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2022 National Playwrights Conference and Panndora’s Box New Works Festival 2022.

Jennifer’s award-winning play Pre-War will have a rehearsed reading by the online theater company PlayZoomers on July 18, 2022.

Jennifer’s play We Were Happy will receive its premiere production as part of American Lives Theatre’s Short & Stout Festival in Indianapolis October 13-16, 2022.

Jennifer’s plays Persephone (published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019) and A Split Second were selected and performed by students at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, NJ, for their annual One-Act Play Festival running June 2-4, 2022.

Jennifer’s Invisible is one of fifty plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York City July 6-9, 2022. Jennifer’s Closet Cat was selected for Gi60 in 2021 and New Kitten and Out in 2019.

Jennifer’s new play Fertile Ground is a Semifinalist (out of 1200+ submissions) for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. (Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning play Charlotte’s Letters is a previous O’Neill Semifinalist.)

Jennifer’s new play Chem Class has been selected (out of 800+ submissions) for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival “honoring new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors.” The play will be performed at Southeast Missouri State University June 12, 2022, and will be published in The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays.

Jennifer’s play The Great Gaffe, published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, will have a production at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH, May 3, 2022.

Jennifer’s play Fridge has been selected by Emporia State University Theatre for its 2022 Festival of New Works in Emporia, KS, April 15, 2022.

Jennifer’s new play Sugar will premiere in Lakeshore Players 18th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival at Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake, MN, running June 2-12, 2022.

Jennifer’s full-length play Slanted Light has been selected by The Bechdel Group for Shortlist Sunday on March 20, 2022. Jennifer’s play Ellery had a reading workshop with The Bechdel Group in 2019.

Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected by Rainy Day Artistic Collective for digital production in its Halfway Histories festival March 18-19, 2022. Expectations was previously produced by Valley Players in Napa, CA, and Short+Sweet Sydney in Sydney Australia, and made the 2021 and 2022 Shortlists for Short+Sweet Dubai.

Jennifer’s new play Sugar has been selected for Rockford New Words 2022 Words on Women performing at The West Side Show Room in Rockford, IL, February 4-5, 2022.

Jennifer’s plays Fridge and Most Wonderful are now published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Smith and Kraus; ed. Debbie Lamedman) and Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Applause Theater & Cinema Books; ed. Lawrence Harbison), respectively. Jennifer’s Persephone, First Day in Trade and The Great Gaffe were previously published in Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017 and Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, respectively.

A monologue from Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning play Charlotte’s Letters is in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022, edited by Debbie Lamedman and published by Smith and Kraus. Monologues from Jennifer’s plays Ellery and Quasars are in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017  and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2014, respectively.

Jennifer’s play Listening has been selected by River’s Edge Theatre Company for its Short+ Sweet festival in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, April 30, 2022.

Jennifer’s play The Great Gaffe, published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, was produced as part of Ouachita Baptist University’s One-Act Play Festival in April 2021.

Jennifer’s monologue Egypt was selected, performed and filmed by Nessa Amherst for Mind the Gap Theatre’s Housebound Series in August 2021.

Jennifer’s Theoni V. Aldredge, Costume Designer, Speaks is part of The Mother Lode: Celebrating Gems in Westchester History by Tutti Bravi Productions at the New Rochelle, NY, Public Library on November 21, 2021 at 3 PM.

Jennifer’s play On 9th Street will receive its premiere production by The New Deal Creative Arts Center in its 10×10 Festival in Poughkeepsie, NY, March 25-26, 2022.

Caravan Productions U.K. will present a live online reading of Jennifer’s ten-minute play Walkies on December 14 at 2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. See Caravan Productions’ Facebook page for more info.

Jennifer’s ten-minute play Most Wonderful, newly published by Applause Books in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, will be produced live online by PlayZoomers December 10 and 11, 2021.

Jennifer was selected for the Kennedy Center’s 2021 Autumn Playwriting Intensive. Led by award-winning playwright, screenwriter and educator Gary Garrison, the program consists of rigorous writing workshops and discussions of the art, craft, and business of playwriting with Gary and a wide range of distinguished guest artists.

Jennifer’s play Waiting premieres in Weathervane Playhouse’s 8×10 Theatrefest running January 13-23, 2022 in Akron, OH. Jennifer’s play Listening won an Audience-Choice Award in Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest.

Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected by Valley Players in Napa, CA, for production in “Ladies Briefs” running October 28-November 14, 2021. Read a  review of the festival and Jennifer’s play here.

Closet Cat is one of fifty plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York from October 21-23, 2021. Jennifer’s plays “New Kitten” and “Out” were produced in 2019 by Gi60 in the U.S. and U.K., respectively. “Closet Cat” can also be found in the current (2021) issue of some scripts literary magazine.

Jennifer’s play A Midsummer Night’s Script will premiere on September 10, 2021 in Funny Shorts Live! at Center for the Arts Moe Auditorium and Film Center in Bonita Springs, FL

Jennifer’s play Persephone was selected for Lionheart Theatre Company‘s “Bewitching” running October 21-24, 2021. The play has had productions across the U.S. and is published by Applause in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison.

Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be produced by Summer School for the Performing Arts in Westford, MA on August 30, 2021.

Jennifer’s monologue “Closet Cat” is in the new issue of some scripts literary magazine.

Jennifer’s play Shelved will be produced by NextStage Theater in CO in Short Scripts for the Soul streaming July 23-24, 2021.

Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be produced by The Playhouse at White Lake in Whitehall, MI as part of Summer Shorts from August 26-29, 2021

Jennifer’s play Fridge is part of Northland Pioneer College’s 2021 Virtual Spring Theatre Festival, viewable here on YouTube through May 9, 2021.

Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected for Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney (Australia) 2021, where it will have a live stage production May 21-23, 2021. Jennifer’s play Fridge was produced in Short+Sweet Perth (Western Australia) 2021 and is Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Sydney 2021.

Jennifer’s one-act play combining her award-winning ten-minute play Fridge with her ten-minute play Microwave will premiere online with PlayZoomers as part of Summer Festival of Love and Laughter from July 23-24, 2021.

Jennifer’s A Midsummer Night’s Script is a Semifinalist for the 2021 International Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival.

Jennifer’s play Lucy Tries Again (about Lucille Ball as a teenager) will debut virtually in the Crafton Hills College New Works Festival on May 9, 2021 at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT. Click here for ticket info.

Jennifer’s play Fridge has been selected (out of more than 620 international submissions) for production in Short+Sweet Perth 2021 in Western Australia. Fridge will be performed March 20-21, 2021.

Jennifer’s play Listening will be produced online by PlayZoomers on February 19,2021 at 7:30 PM EST. The play premiered in Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest where it won an audience-choice award.

See a live, rehearsed virtual reading of Jennifer’s play Fridge as part of Caravan Theatre’s “A Fresh Start” on January 28, 2021 at 2 PM EST. Ticket info here.

Jennifer’s Circumnavigation has been selected for Spokane Stage Left’s Fast & Furious 2021 play festival streaming February 27, 2021.

Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be part of NextStage Theater Company’s Teen Tuesday show on January 12, 2021.

Jennifer’s ten-minute play Fridge is one of 56 scripts out of 620 international submissions currently shortlisted for Short+Sweet Perth 2021.

Jennifer’s full-length play Juggling with Mr. Fields, about W.C. Fields toward the end of his life, is a Finalist in Southwest Theatre Production’s 2020 contest. Her full-length play Paranormal Love is a Semifinalist in the same competition.

Jennifer’s Expectations and Fridge are Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Dubai Theater Festival 2021. Fridge is also Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Perth 2021.

Jennifer’s monologue In Memory of Maria Mercader honoring journalist and CBS news producer Maria Mercader is currently streaming as part of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble‘s The Covid Monologues celebrating and memorializing lives lost to Covid.

Jennifer’s monologue Invisible premieres in Natural Distancing, a play festival by Civic Theater of Greater Lafayette, IN, streaming from October 3-17, 2020. The show will restream in December 2020.

Jennifer’s play Most Wonderful has been selected for The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Lawrence Harbison and forthcoming from Applause Theater & Cinema Books. The play premiered in 2019 at OnStage Atlanta.

A filmed performance of Jennifer’s ten-minute play Persephone will be part of Spark Creative Works’ Women’s Playwriting Project on March 28, 2021. Persephone received previous productions in CA, IL, MI and UT and is now published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison

Caravan Theatre performed Jennifer’s new play A Midsummer Night’s Script on August 31, 2020.

Jennifer’s monologue “Playgroup” will be performed as part of Empower Her Voice U.K.’s virtual scratch night on August 29 at 7 PM GMT/2 PM EDT.

Jennifer’s new monologue, “Like Knives,” will be performed by Laura San Giacomo in Over and Above: Women Over 55 Speak, a benefit to support the artists of Brave New World Repertory Theatre in the time of COVID. The show will be performed over Zoom at 7 PM EST on August 26, 2020. Ticket info here.

Jennifer’s monologue “Belle, ex-wife of a Beast” was performed by Emily Hageman as part of the Women’s Voices edition of The Writer’s Block Radio Hour out of Glasgow, Scotland on July 8, 2020.

Three of Jennifer’s plays were selected, performed and recorded by Caravan Theatre U.K.: Expectations and The Great Gaffe on August 3, 2020, and The Mysterious Affair at the Christies on August 10, 2020.

Jennifer’s new play Expectations was Shortlisted for Pint-sized Plays 2020. The play has already had three readings in the U.K., including in Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England.

Jennifer’s play Fridge was selected for Theatre Three’s new Off-Stage/On-Line Series. Watch the video of Fridge here.

Four of Jennifer’s plays are being performed live online at 1 PM EST in Around the Globe in Eighty Plays, a fundraiser by Fractured Time Productions in support of Shakespeare’s Globe: The Bookstore (June 22), Fridge  (June 28), The Mysterious Affair at the Christies (June 30) and Expectations (July 2, 2020).

Jennifer’s monologue I’m Not Malala will be livestreamed as part of the virtual revival of The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival at The PGE’s YouTube page on June 6, 2020.

Jennifer’s play Fridge won 2nd Place Audience-Choice Award in Kairos Italy Theater’s International Ten-Minute Play Festival on May 18, 2020, and will be performed in Italian at the Lucido Sottile Festival (online) on June 6, 2020. Read more in Broadway World.

Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning full-length play Charlotte’s Letters is also a Winner of the 2020 Rising Artist Playwriting Award. A live reading at Attic Salt Theatre Company has been delayed due to Covid-19 but is currently projected for Spring 2022.

Jennifer’s new play Fridge has been selected by Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) for the International Women in Comedy ten-minute play festival. Due to COVID-19, readings will take place virtually on May 18, 2020.

Jennifer’s plays A Split Second and Pre-War have been selected for Plays for Us, a series of play readings in collaboration with The Actors Center. Due to COVID-19 the plays will be performed virtually on May 14, 2020.

Jennifer’s monologue Playgroup was selected for The Mother-logues and livestreamed on June 29, 2020 by Red Herring Productions in Columbus, OH. Watch the video on YouTube here.

Jennifer’s monologue play Theoni V. Aldredge, Costume Designer, Speaks has been selected by The Barrow Group for its 20/20 New Visions Festival in NYC. (Postponed due to COVID-19)

Jennifer’s play Only Human will be produced by Mystic Vision Players in Linden, NJ as part of #Code Red Faith. (Postponed due to COVID-19)

Jennifer’s new play Fridge has been selected for The Social Distancing Short Play Festival currently taking place on Facebook. Fridge is also a Semifinalist for Stage It’s 2020 Ten-Minute Play Festival, in which Jennifer’s play Pre-War premiered in 2019.

Jennifer’s new play Expectations will be part of Love and Other Catastrophes by The Rum Diaries Presents in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 27th, 2020.

Jennifer’s play Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits will be produced by 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA, as part of Heroines, Harpies and Harlots: A Woman Speaks from February 28 to March 8, 2020.

Jennifer’s play Only Human was selected for St. Paul’s Arts Council’s 3rd Annual Short New Play Festival in New Albany, IN, on Feburary 9, 2020.

Jennifer’s widely reprinted poem “Moths,” originally published in Poetry and included in her book White, was recently featured on Spokane Public Radio’s Poetry Moment.

Jennifer’s monologue I’m Not Malala was selected for The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival and will be performed at New York City’s Kraine Theater on November 18, 2019.

Jennifer’s monologue play Only Human will have a reading on October 1st, 2019 at St. John’s Lutheran in New York City as part of Code Red Playwrights in support of gun control.

Jennifer’s play “Tomorrow or Next Year” is at Feels Blind Literary.

Jennifer’s play Persephone will be produced and live-streamed as part of by The Ten Show at The Hive Collaborative in Provo, UT, on October 26, 2019. Viewers can watch at The Hive Channel or The Hive Collaborative’s Facebook page.

Jennifer’s holiday play Most Wonderful premieres in OnStage Atlanta‘s Merry Little Holiday Shorts, running December 11-21, 2019.

Jennifer’s award-winning full-length play Paranormal Love is one of five Honorable Mentions/runners-up for the 2019 Pandora’s Box New Works Festival.

Four short plays by Jennifer–The Gorilla, Bars, Cage and Circumnavigation–will premiere in Cage: Short Animal Plays  by Primal Theatre at Barons Court Theatre, London, UK, from 9/3-8, 2019.

New Kitten (which premiered in Gi60’s US Live Edition in 2019) will be produced in O.G. Production’s Theatre Tapas in Columbus, OH, in September 2019.

Jennifer’s play The Mysterious Affair at the Christies will be produced in London by Saw It Here First Productions at Theatro Technis on March 8, 2020. Ticket sales help support The Moira Fund.

Jennifer is the featured poet at Cultural Weekly with three poems from her second book, Exclusions & Limitations, published in 2018 by Plume Editions/MadHat Press.

Jennifer’s play Persephone was selected for production in Playbytes by Playwrights “Lost and Found” at Lowell Arts Theater from November 1-9, 2019. Persephone has also been selected for The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, forthcoming from Applause Books.

Jennifer’s poem “Moths” from her award-winning book White is featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of “Four Seasons: Summer.” The poem is read by Juliet Stevenson. (June 2019)

Jennifer’s play Listening was selected for Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest in Akron, OH. The play premiered in July 2019 and won 3rd Place Audience-Choice Award.

New Kitten is a winner of ICWP’s (International Center for Women Playwrights’) April 2019 3-Minute Play Contest, judged by Kristen Osborn.

Two plays by Jennifer will be produced by Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival. Out will premiere in May 2019 at Leeds Theatre in the UK, while New Kitten premieres at Brooklyn College in NYC in June. (An expanded version of “New Kitten” won ICWP’s 3-Minute Play Contest in 2019).

Only Human has been selected for The Factory Theatre at Greenville University’s New Plays Festival in April 2019. The play will also have readings at theaters around the country as part of Code Red Playwrights in support of gun control, including at Phoenix Theatre in Minneapolis (March 2019), Lakewood Playhouse in Washington (May 2019), Focal Theatre Lab in Iowa (June 2019) and St. John Lutheran Church in NYC (October 2019).

Jennifer’s full-length play Ellery has been selected by The Bechdel Group for a reading and workshop at The Tank in NYC on April 1st, 2019. A monologue from Ellery appears in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017 (Smith and Kraus).

“Pre-War” has been selected for production in Stage It’s 2019 Ten-Minute Play Festival and will premiere in Bonita Springs, FL, in April 2019. The play has also been awarded publication in Stage It 3: Twenty 10-Minute Plays. ”

Persephone has been published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison and available from Applause Theatre & Cinema Books.

Jennifer’s play “Emily’s Room” will have its world premiere at Rover Dramawerks in Plano, TX, in its 365 Women a Year Festival March-April 2019.

Jennifer’s play “Domestic Service” will be produced by White Mouse Theatre Productions at Florida State University in Tallahassee in November 2019.

Charlotte’s Letters was named a Second Rounder in the 2018 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. The play also won the 2018 Henley Rose Award and the 2017 NEWvember Festival Dublin competition, among other awards.

Jennifer is the featured poet on the July 12th edition of Verse Daily with this poem from her new (2nd) book, Exclusions & Limitations, available from Plume Editions in conjunction with MadHat Press.

Jennifer is the featured poet on the May 20th, 2018 edition of Poetry Daily with this poem from her new book, Exclusions & Limitations. Another of the book’s poems, “How to Clean Practically Anything,” appeared previously on Poetry Daily.